Katniss is the main support for her mother and sister as she takes on the role of the provider for the family. ... Katniss took on the role of male provider for the family, although she was female she took on the work and hardship to keep her family alive. The protagonists Claudia and Katniss's take on masculine jobs/roles that stereotypically challenge your regular female. Although they take on the male role they, they still use the women traits to help them achieve their goal. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hedda Gabler Society and social issues play an important role in the outcome of the novel, "Hedda Gabler." ... Society's role in the play is shown by the way it has set up restrictions on the individual and has its own set of demands and ideals. ...

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That night, she forced him to decide whether or not he wanted her to continue to play an active role in his life. ... Her unceasing patience and understanding was what Grant needed to help him realize the important role he actually played in the community. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is clear that Frankenstein being a human being and the monster he created switch roles by the end of the novel due to the situations in which they land. ... Instead of owning up to the role he played in all of the madness that occurred after he left the monster isolated, and with no one to protect him from the cruelty of the people he would encounter in his life after he was created, he seeks his revenge and blames all of the misfortunes on him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The government plays a much bigger role in Enders Games than in The Day of the Triffids. In The Day of the Triffids we see in the beginning a possible cause for the manifestation of the triffids. The problem here was that the government wasn't around long enough to reap the bounty of their actions. ...

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A novel must engage the reader, or no-one would bother to finish it. To that extent, entertainment, which we might describe as a compelling storyline, is important. But novels do much more than merely entertain, because they provide insight into the human condition that helps us to comprehend the wo...

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John Steinbeck enables crucial techniques that consume the reader into a far-fetched but classical novel, that experiments cultures and human relationships. "Tortilla Flat" reveals the true story of the Paisano culture and their reliance on wine. Throughout this novel wine exemplifies a change in t...

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Society also has ideals for roles and the behaviors that are acceptable for those roles. Each gender, as well as class, has their own roles and acceptable behaviors that coincide with those roles in Jane Eyre. ... Jane is constantly breaching the limits of her role as a female and also as child. ... In Shakespeare's, The Tempest, Caliban's role is that of a servant. The role of a servant is to do as their master tells them to do and to not talk back. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel "The Wild Geese," Ogai Mori successfully shows to the reader the role of women in the late 1880s. ... And along the novel Ogai Mori successfully accomplish to show the role of women in that time. Maybe the first and the most important example of women role in the 1800s in the novel is Otama. ... The second example of how the author let the reader know the role of women throughout the novel is Otsune. ... The last example of the role of women in that time is an example of symbolism. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Cloudstreet illustrates the role of culture in making people feel psychologically and emotionally at home. ... " Tim Winton's Post-Colonial novel Cloudstreet adopts some techniques to illustrate the role of culture in making people feel psychologically and emotionally at home. ... By adopting the modern technique 'stream of consciousness,' Winton further illustrates the vitality of culture as a role in influencing the characters' well-being. ... " Thus, Winton illustrates that feeling belonged and 'at home' is dependent upon the specific culture ...

• Word Count: 768
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The actors picked for the roles fit almost perfectly to the descriptions of the characters in the short story. ... In the movie the actor who filed his role was a very big man with a powerful voice. The last character, Jabez Stone, wasn't given a very active role in the short story, but he was described as " an unlucky man...he had a good wife and children, but the more he had the less there was to feed them." ... I already pointed out that Jabez had a bigger role in the movie and that he only had one child. His wife, her mother, the neighboring farmers and the housekeeper were also gi...

• Word Count: 934
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• Grade Level: High School

Edna is beginning to recognize the role her husband has placed her in. ... Ratignolle, who interacts with her husband and models the role of the perfect wife and companion. ... This "life's delirium- Edna is referring to is Adele's inability to recognize the role she has let herself assume. ... At the same time, however, one must consider Edna's role in her past: before, she was passive and nave. ... She does not question her role as a mother-woman. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Religion" The role of religion in the novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez plays a big part in the main event of the novel. ... So, religion in this novel appears to take a big role, but it is actually a big role in a bad way. ...

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Consider the different dreams throughout the novel and decide what functional role they fulfill. Raskolnikov dreams often in the novel, and the author indubitably implements his dreams to play a specific role. ... Religion plays an ironic role in Crime and Punishment, and many Christian themes appear within the novel (i.e., driver who whips Raskolnikov). ... What role does suffering have in the characters and in the novel? ... The role of suffering in Crime and Punishment ties in with Christianity and its themes that are incorporated into the novel. ...

• Word Count: 1095
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Frankenstein's family in particular was missing a female role. ... The monster was created because of this absence, not necessarily to fill the role of the mother, but to fill in the role of the missing family member. ... Elizabeth is expected to fill in as the role of the mother by taking care of and protecting the young children. Although she replaces the role of the mother, there is still the fact that a family member is missing. ... For the De Lacey family, Agatha, the sister, plays the womanly role here. ...

• Word Count: 1455
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• Grade Level: High School

This way he would appear honest and continue to be the role model for animals like Boxer. ... Another truth that Napoleon changed to meet his political goals is when he changed the role of Snowball in the Battle of Cowshed. Snowballs original role in this battle is that he was the one who led the victory of the battle, bit Jonas' leg, and received an award for his courage. Napoleon changed the role of Snowball in the Battle of Cowshed to make his accusations against Snowball correct. ...

• Word Count: 848
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• Grade Level: High School

Ruby's role in the book was to be there to comfort and be a sympathetic listener for Ada, while the love of her life, Inman, was off at war. ... Even the kids that they had to take care, gave both Ada and Ruby a family, so Ruby's role changed again, this time more of a mother-like character. ... All in all, Ruby proved to me, that she was the true definition of a confidante, since Frazer made her role into one of that as a dependable, reliable person in the book. ...

• Word Count: 524
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• Grade Level: High School

Her role as the link between the white Americans and the Japanese is reinforced by aspects of the novel, such as her appointment of strawberry queen; a role of linkage between the two cultures. ... Hatsue, as Kabuo's wife, furthers her important role as a cultural bridge through Ishmael's struggles. ... Etta Heine, relative to the other characters plays a minor role; yet her minor role is that of the personification of the major theme of prejudice throughout the book. ...

• Word Count: 1123
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Abstract This paper introduces and discusses the book "Heart of Darkness," by Joseph Conrad. Specifically, it analyzes the role of women in this novella. The paper looks at how women are represented and what sort of comments are made about women "in general". Women in "Heart of Darkness" play an im...

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• Grade Level: High School

What's more important in a novel, the main character of the story or the conflict? Often in works of literature, there are characters-other than the main character-whose presence in the work is essential. In the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is an antagonist. The antagonist ...

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The purpose of Edna's "awakening" is to enlighten readers about the roles society places individuals into, and that these people should not accept the roles that they are given, but pursue a life in which they can be happy. ...

• Word Count: 359
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It can be said that Cossette simply exists and has no proactive role other than to bring pleasure to Valjean and then Marius. ... Fantine, although a victim in the end, plays a proactive role in her own life. ... Eponine truly takes on a proactive role in the novel. ... Eponine also plays a large role in the revolutionary aspect of the novel. ... By venturing to the barricade she is putting her life at risk but is also stepping out of a passive role, she relies on one to help her and has learned to take care of herself. ...

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Trace the river motif from the beginning of the novel to its discussing its importance, role, and meaning. ... The river serves as many things in Siddhartha, but its greatest role is as a symbol for the Middle Path. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Negro servant in the story plays the role of death because he symbolizes what death has come in the story. ... The servant had nothing of a better role than to play the death in the story since he was surrounded by it being the help of Miss Emily and living in the old house with her. ... Symbolism is very important throughout the story, and plays one of the biggest roles in the essential meaning of the entire story. ...

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Moreover, another character who is quite important has a great role in the novel, and the role is being the cause of the downfall of Macondo. ... Playing this role of God, Melquiades represents Garcia, who knows what will happen, who planned it all out. ...

• Word Count: 662
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• Grade Level: High School